Liberty Quotes - Page 3

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other places of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion, caste or creed - that has nothing to do with the business of the State.

Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.

I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.

Of all the religions in the world, perhaps the religion of liberty is the only faith capable of purity.

When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.

Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.

God determine timing of everything;
A time to be born and a time to die.
A time to be sorrow and a time to be happy.
A time to plant and a time to harvest.
A time to search and a time to quit searching.
A time of darkness and a time of light.
A time of trouble and a time of liberation.

We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.

Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.

People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.

The processing of universals is the job of the unconscious. If we feed it the opposite it breaks; when it breaks we break and the people around us break.

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force.

We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years.

Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot.